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Latest news from Blesma, The Limbless Veterans
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Soldiering on Awards - Winner announced tonight!
1 October 2020
The Sporting Excellence Award honours a person or team that has overcome challenges, inspired others and demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of sport. Let's meet this year's finalists... Mi
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The Resilience Sessions - Vick Hope and Shaun Stocker BEM
30 September 2020
The Resilience Sessions is a podcast series featuring compelling in-depth interviews, which bring to light life-changing and affirming experiences of Blesma veterans and the unknown personal struggles of celebrity guests who have fought to overcome hardship, including mental health difficulties, disability, devastating injury and bereavement.
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Veteran Murray has rediscovered his love for bike racing
29 September 2020
An Army veteran who became the first double leg amputee to race in a support class of the British Superbike Championships before hanging up his leathers has made a return to racing. Murray Hambro stepped away from racing two years ago but made a comeback at Donington Park earlier this year in the Ducati Performance TriOptions Cup. “Having raced for a team in the past, I decided to make a solo return in 2020,” said the 40 year old, who has been racing in various classes since 2012. “Now that I’m riding for myself, there’s no pressure and I’ve found my love for racing aga
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Rock bottom to top of the world - Blesma Member Hari Budha Magar's Story
28 September 2020
In 2010, Hari lost both his legs while serving in Afghanistan with The Royal Gurkha Rifles. In the years following his injury, Hari took up ice and rock climbing and soon he began to follow his childhood dream of climbing Mount Everest. He was originally denied permission by the Nepalese tourism office to climb the world’s tallest peak because he doesn’t have legs. “I worked so hard in 2017 to get ready for the climb up Everest and I was actually training on a mountain when I found out. You can’t tell someone they can’t do something just be
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